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how much is 4oz?

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  • noonesperfect
    noonesperfect Posts: 1,831 Forumite
    hilstep2000 wrote: »
    I'm of the generation that had to learn both imperial and metric, and LSD and Decimal money!
    I still convert things, even now! LOL!

    me too, though I learned £sd LOL!
    :wave:
  • bryanb
    bryanb Posts: 5,034 Forumite
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    I'm so old I really did learn about rods, poles,chains, and perches. But I've stopped converting.
    This is an open forum, anyone can post and I just did !
  • jb5
    jb5 Posts: 90 Forumite
    Another conversion facility.

    WolframAlpha

    This will also provide lots of other facts, definitions and trivia.
  • noonesperfect
    noonesperfect Posts: 1,831 Forumite
    bryanb wrote: »
    I'm so old I really did learn about rods, poles,chains, and perches. But I've stopped converting.

    I remember seeing these on the back of Silvane notebooks but never made any sense of them!!
    :wave:
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 17,413 Forumite
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    edited 6 June 2009 at 11:04PM
    bryanb wrote: »
    I'm so old I really did learn about rods, poles,chains, and perches. But I've stopped converting.

    So did I and and have always used imperial measures. Sometimes I convert the price of something in the supermarket back to £sd and think :eek::eek::eek:
    How much ,then I don't buy it I find something else .I still think that ten bob for a newspaper is appalling:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I am to old to change my ways now .
  • Barneysmom
    Barneysmom Posts: 10,144 Ambassador
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    I struggle with centimetres. I always try and convert in my head what it would be in inches.

    And when it comes to buying a piece of beef, I have to get my mobile phone out to work out the cost in lbs.
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